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Fish in
the
News.
Each
week the
Bailey
Brothers
start
the Pet
Fish
Talk
Show
with
some fun
and
interesting
stories
about
fish in
the
news.

From the Rio
Tocantis in
Brazil,

Blue
Lipped Macho
Eartheater

The Latin
name for the
genus
Retroculus
is derived
from its
relatively
back
positioned
eyes. Just
as well the
name could
have been
Robustorpedus,
for these
fish are
very
powerful and
muscular,
and yet
their
overall
shape is
sleek. The
type species
R. lapidifer
has a
distinctive
habit of
resting on
the bottom
in a pose
resembling
pushups,
only the
supporting
hands are
replaced by
the erect
ventral
fins. Their
swimming
seems
awkward at
first and
due to the
diminished
swimming
bladder the
fish need to
overcome a
constant
"over
weight".
However, all
awkwardness
is gone
instantly as
something
interesting
catches
their
attention
and the fish
darts with
lightning
speed. This
and
everything
else in
Retroculus
seems to be
perfectly
suited to
their
rheaphilic
(rapids
loving)
lifestyle
starting
from
behavioral
characteristics
and strong
fins, and
ending to
the
extremely
adhesive
eggs. Click
here to read more.

A
36,000-square-foot
"Sea Life"
aquarium
will be
built next
to Legoland
California
in Carlsbad,
it was
announced
today. The
$20 million,
two-story
aquarium is
slated to
open
sometime
next summer,
according to
Nick Varney,
chief
executive
officer of
Merlin
Entertainments,
Legoland
California's
parent
company. A
separate
admission
will be
charged to
enter the
aquarium,
which will
feature
educational
and
interactive
exhibits
aimed at
children,
park
officials
said. It
will be the
29th "Sea
Life"
aquarium in
the world,
and the
first one to
open its
doors in
North
America. Click
here to read more.

In Opelika,
Alabama,

Couple
Surrounded
by Aquariums
say Fish
offer
Serenity.

There’s
something
fishy going
on around
Barry and
Barbara
Milka’s
home. And
they
wouldn’t
have it any
other way.
When you
step through
the front
door of the
Milka
residence,
you’re
greeted by
the
evidence.
Twelve fish
aquariums
that hold
between 5
and 75
gallons are
set up
throughout
their home.
The
aquariums
are home to
such
tropical
fish as
Severums,
Bala Sharks,
beta
splendens
(also called
Japanese
fighting
fish) and
several
different
species of
cichlid -
all of which
Barbara
Milka could
discuss in
detail any
time she’s
asked about
them. Click
here to read more.

In
Australia,

Seahorses
Released
into Sydney
Harbor.

The Sydney
Aquarium has
released 30
seahorses
bred in
captivity
into Sydney
Harbor as
part of an
Australian-first
study to try
to boost
their
numbers, but
it is
concerned
poachers may
intervene.
The tiny
black
animals were
carefully
transported
from a tank
into the
netted area
at Manly
Cove, in
northern
Sydney, this
morning. The
five-centimeter-long
white's
seahorses
have been
tagged and
will be
closely
monitored by
the New
South Wales
Department
of Primary
Industries
(DPI) and a
team of
divers. Click
here to read more.

In Normal,
Illinois,

Coral
Enthusiasts
Swap Frags.

A battle
between two
rival
species of
coral was
just one of
the things
people could
see Saturday
at the
Bloomington-Normal
Area Reef
Club’s first
“frag swap.”
More than 50
aquarium
enthusiasts
who
specialize
in raising
coral came
from as far
away as Iowa
and
Wisconsin to
the K-9
Country Club
in Normal to
trade
“frags,” or
fragments of
living
coral.
Raising the
tiny marine
creatures,
whose
colonies
form reefs,
is something
the average
person could
do, thanks
to advances
in
technology,
advocates
said. Rich
Dietz, clad
in a black
T-shirt
bearing a
picture of a
Firemouth
Cichlid and
the caption
“Mr.
Firemouth”
in honor of
his skills
breeding
that
species,
pointed to a
crab in one
tank. Its
claws were
barely
visible in
the waving
tentacles of
the anemone
with which
it has a
symbiotic
relationship. Click
here to read more.

In National
Geographic
Magazine

Shark Ate
Amphibian
Ate Fish:
First
"Food-Chain
Fossil"

About 290
million
years ago, a
prehistoric
shark ate an
amphibian,
which in
turn ate a
frog—and all
three were
preserved in
one of the
first
food-chain
fossils ever
discovered.
The
researchers
are puzzled
as to why
modern-day
sharks do
not live in
fresh water
or eat
amphibians
like their
ancient
counterparts. Click
here to read more.

Between the
Central and
Eastern
Pacific
Ocean,

Oceanic
Invasions
Across
Darwin's
Impassable
Barrier.

Reef fish
share
genetic
connections
across what
Darwin
termed an
'impassable
barrier',
5000km of
deep ocean
separating
the eastern
and central
Pacific,
according to
a report by
Smithsonian
scientists
in the
Proceedings
of the Royal
Society B.
By
sequencing
mitochondrial
DNA from 20
morpho-species
of fairly
sedentary
shore fish
on both
sides of the
divide, the
study
confirms
close
relationships
between
populations
of the same
fish species
across the
barrier and
indicates
that genes
move in both
directions
across the
barrier. Click
here to read more.

At San
Nicolas
Island,
among
California's
Channel
Islands,

Disease-Resistant
Black
Abalone
Offers
Restocking
Hope.

US
biologists
have
discovered
that black
abalone on
the most
remote of
California's
Channel
Islands, San
Nicolas
Island are
resistant to
the deadly
bacterial
disease
known as
withering
syndrome.
The
discovery
may help
save these
now rare
inter-tidal
mollusks
from
extinction,
as
scientists
hope to soon
breed these
animals in
captivity
for release
in the wild.
San Nicolas
Island has
been the
site of
several
severe
outbreaks of
withering
syndrome,
said Carolyn
Friedman, a
professor at
the School
of Aquatic
and Fishery
Sciences at
the
University
of
Washington
in Seattle,
explaining
the island
abalones’
hardiness.
They are the
descendants
of that one
percent of
the
population
that
survived. Click
here to read more.

In China

Pollution
in the
Yangtze
River can be
Reversed.

Swiss and
Chinese
scientists
have found
that
pollution in
China's
6,300
kilometre-long
(3,915
mile-long)
Yangtze
river is
"enormous"
but still
reversible,
Switzerland's
development
agency said
Friday. The
results of a
joint water
quality
survey of
the world's
third
largest
river, which
is also
considered
one of its
most
polluted,
were "less
alarming
than
expected,"
the Swiss
Development
and
Cooperation
agency (SDC)
said in a
statement.
"The
ecosystem of
the Yangtze
can be saved
if China
intensifies
its
activities
in water
protection
now," said
survey
organizer
August
Pfluger. The
scientists
urged
Chinese
authorities
to take
protective
measures
similar to
those taken
in Europe in
recent
years,
especially
with the
prospect of
further
pressure on
the river
from China's
booming
economy. Click
here to read more.

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